War, famine, genocide, and hotly contested elections. We think of Orwell’s novel 1984 as presaging a dystopian future, however it’s this year of 2024 which is delivering horror, unconscionable suffering, and threats from the authoritarians of the far-right. A bleak scenario, only faintly ameliorated by the election results in Britain and France. Whilst Gaza is […]
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In Praise of Doubt
‘I tell you, the first duty of manhood and womanhood is a Declaration of Independence.’ (Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw) ‘I don’t know’ ‘I’m not sure,’ are often received as statements of weakness, vacillation or lacking intellectual rigour. I beg to disagree. I believe they are two of the strongest statements a person […]